ACAT-France, APRODEV, Broederlijk Delen, CCFD-Terre solidaire, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network and Front Line are deeply concerned about the decision of the Israeli Knesset to establish a parliamentary committee of inquiry to investigate Israeli human rights organisations that provided information to the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict led by Justice Goldstone or who have been monitoring human rights violations by Israeli security forces. This committee will be mandated to “examine the activities of Israeli organisations involved with the collection of information about soldiers and to follow their funding sources.”

Ynet News: Dr. Dani Filk, member of PHR-Israel Board: Op-ed: Past experience taught us that radical Right incitement can lead to bloody outcomes.

Guardian: Commission of inquiry into groups monitoring activities of the Israeli military in occupied West Bank denounced as 'McCarthyite'. The funding of Israeli human and civil rights groups is to be investigated amid claims they are acting against the country's interests, members of the Israeli parliament decided today – a move described by opponents as "McCarthyite".

Human Rights Groups in Israel Respond to Proposed Bill to Suppress Information about Serious Breaches of International Law: A Danger to Democracy

On February 14, 2010, the Israeli government voted (by a vote of 8-3 of the Ministerial Committee on Legislation) to support a legislative bill entitled the "Bill on disclosure requirements for recipients of support from a foreign political entity – 2010". Civil society groups have expressed their grave concern over this bill, which passed a preliminary vote (58-11) in the Knesset plenum on February 17, 2010 and is scheduled to be brought for a full vote after March 17, 2010.

In recent months, a worrisome wave of denunciation of human rights' defenders has swept through Israeli society. This in addition to an attack starting with the first testimonies published on human rights violations during the attack on Gaza.